Readers are invited to embark on a journey through Middle-Earth which at the same time turns out to be an inner journey transforming the Hobbits as well as the characters they meet on their way. The transformation brings Aragorn to the throne of the King that has been void for a thousand years and makes him the center of a great joint Kingdom, a collective symbol of the Self in Middle-Earth. Simultaneously the Hobbits representing Ego-consciousness are enabled to remodel the Shire, the little Kingdom inside the big Kingdom.

The book conveys an understanding of the deeper symbolic layers of The Lord of the Rings that so many readers enthustiacally and persistently have experienced.
C.G. Jung´s theories of the Archetypes lend a weighty key to an understanding of the forces of imagination that play such a powerful role in Tolkien´s masterpiece and thereby to an understanding of ourselves and the world that surrounds us.

Tolkien used his personal life as well as his enormous and multifacetted knowledge of ancient Nordic fairy tales, myths, sagas and poems as bulidning bricks in his fantasy universe. And yet the true excitement in all this comes from Tolkien´s taking these bricks out of their original context and creating something totally new.

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